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© 2021 Jacamar Club - Perú BIRDING FIELD REPORT ESTANCIA BELLO HORIZONTE LODGE MADRE DE DIOS – PERU 2021 WOMEN BIRDERS PROGRAM Sponsored by Jacamar Club and Vortex Optics www.JACAMARCLUB.com Page 1 © 2021 Jacamar Club - Perú > A Field Report < Of Birding Excursions and The importance of Empowering Women in the Birding Activities for Enviromental Education in Peru and Bolivia. WOMEN BIRDERS PROGRAM Sponsored by Jacamar Club and Vortex Optics, Estancia Bello Horizonte Lodge Madre de Dios – PERU march 13, 2021 Candy Echevarria1, Ana Amable2, Richard Amable3 [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] The “Women Birders”, a program created to empower women in the good ecological practices of birding & birdwatching in Peru and Bolivia. Through this program the women in the community will be able to increase their leadership and knowledge in conservation and ecotourism. Also, this will make a difference in their communities as they can represent their communities and will lead the changes in local conservation behavior. Finally, it will benefit directly to the conservation of local birds. The Jacamar Club programs perform a series of activities as a preliminary steps to environmental education, ecotourism ideas and conservation of bird habitats in Peru and Bolivia. It is a long way of training, all the participants in our program have been learning about birds both virtually, through various talks, and in situ, twice a month, going out to birch around the Cusco region in Peru, recording all possible birds, taking photos of the birds, places and communities where we do our trainings. In the Madre de Dios region we are 09 from 30 ladies, of three regions of Peru, ladies from different houses of study, institutes, universities that without distinction we learn together from the hand of Jacamar Club; If you want to support us you can find out more here on our website, in addition you will find videos, photos and the selected ones reports of each field trip in the three regions where the program takes place, in Cusco, Madre de Dios and Loreto. https://jacamarclub.com/women-birders-peru/ BIRDING LOCALITIES OF INTEREST PUERTO MALDONADO Puerto Maldonado is a city in southeastern of Peru, it is the capital of the Department of Madre de Dios, located on the banks of the confluence of the Madre de Dios River and the Tambopata River. It is one of the main commercial centers of the Amazon, has access on the interoceanic highway on the triple border with Bolivia and Brazil. Puerto Maldonado is located in the district and province of Tambopata in the department of Madre de Dios. It is a hot city with temperatures of up to 40ºC, tropical with excellent tourist and cultural potential. TAMBOPATA DISTRICT Tambopata province is a one of the three provinces of the Madre de Dios Region, in southern Peru. Contemplate a great biodiversity. The Nacional Reserve of Tambopata is just 50 minutes by boat. It is one of the places where the Amazonia is in harmony, surrounded by lakes of meandering origin and many clay licks of parrots and macaws visiting it. Tambopata province has four districts. The birded route we chose is situated in the district of the Las Piedras, km 14 Bello Horizonte , about 7 kilometers down the road Bajo Loboyoc we will find the entrance to Estancia Bello Horizonte Lodge. ESTANCIA BELLO HORIZONTE LODGE. It is a work created for the benefit of APRONIA (Association for the Protection of Children and Adolescents). This place is surrounded by one of the most outstanding palm groves in the Amazon Mauritia flexuosa this area of aguajal is perfect to see some Psittacidos, Estancia Bello Horizonte Lodge has several trails where it house large trees as well as a suspension bridge over 30 meters high, wich allows as to visualize the birds of the canopy. Page 2 © 2021 Jacamar Club - Perú Estancia Bello Horizonte Lodge- Photo Estancia Bello Horizonte. Over the canopy- Photo Estancia Bello Horizonte. Page 3 © 2021 Jacamar Club - Perú Map route to Estancia Bello Horizonte Lodge, by Google MAP Main square of Puerto Maldonado- Photo Pavel Martiarena Page 4 © 2021 Jacamar Club - Perú Bajo Loboyoc road- Photo Candy Echevarria Page 5 © 2021 Jacamar Club - Perú THE KEY TO THE BIRD LIST * = Species heard only Red – IUCN Red List Category IOC = International Ornithological Congress SACC = South American Classification Committee THE LIST OF BIRDS ANSERIFORMES Galliformes + Anseriformes are placed in linear sequence to follow Tinamiformes in accordance with a wealth of data that show that these two orders are sister taxa, and that they are basal within the neognath birds. The monophyly of the Galliformes has never been seriously questioned and has been confirmed by Eo et al. (2009. [relationships among families] ANHIMIDAE: Screamers/ Gritadores 1.Horned Screaming – Anhima cornuta- Gritador unicornio. Seen over two, common here. Widespread and fairly common in Amazonia. An enormous, ungainly bird of rivers and marshes; usually seen as singles or pairs on river banks and sandbars, or perched in low bushes or trees at margins of oxbow lakes or marshes. Seems to have difficulty taking flight, but once airborne flight is sure and steady; may even soar. Grazes on aquatic vegetation. At close range note long white “horn” (modified feather) on forehead, and “spurs” at bend of wing. VOICE Unmistakable song, usually a duet, is a loud, reedy, honking series of multisyllabic notes, some rising, others falling. Carries for long distances. Co, E, Br, Bo Horned Screaming- Photo Candy Echevarría Page 6 © 2021 Jacamar Club - Perú GALLIFORMES CRACIDAE: Guans and Curassows/ Chachalacas, Pavas, y Paujiles 2. Speckled Chachalaca – Ortalis erythroptera- Chachalaca Jaspeada * Widespread and fairly common in eastern Peru, to 1700 m. Originally a bird of river-edge forest that has successfully colonized second growth and forest edge; often persists close to towns and villages if not hunted heavily. Much smaller than Penelope guans, with drabber plumage, and a reduced dewlap. VOICE Song (in duet or chorus) a raucous 4-note chatter: “rah-KA’DUK-kah!” or “cha- cha’LAH-kah!” Other calls include cackles, rattles, purrs, whines, and other sounds. Co, E, Br, Bo COLUMBIFORMES COLUMBIDAE: PIGEONS AND DOVES / PALOMAS Y TÓRTOLAS Jarvis et al. (2014) and Prum et al. (2015) found that the Columbiformes were sister to Old World Pterocliformes + Mesitornithiformes. The monophyly of the Columbiformes has never been seriously questioned. Traditional classifications (e.g., Gibbs et al. 2001) treat the huge, extinct flightless pigeons of the Mascarene Islands as a separate family, Raphidae, but recognition of this family would certainly make both families paraphyletic because it would seem impossible that the three species of "Raphidaeko" are each other’s closest relatives, but instead represent three independent colonizations of separate islands with subsequent convergent evolution <find citation, if one exists>. Within the Columbidae, Goodwin (1983) recognized five subfamilies, only one of which, Columbinae, occurs in the Western Hemisphere. These subfamily designations do not correspond to deep splits in the family. In fact, genetic data (Johnson 2004) indicate that the New World ground-doves are a distinctive group that are the sister group to a large sample of Old World and New World genera. SACC proposal passed to change linear sequence of genera to placed ground doves first. Pereira et al. (2007) confirmed the distinctiveness of the New World ground doves but did not find that they were the sister to all other columbids, but rather that the Columba group was; they also found strong support for the sister relationship between Columbina and Metriopelia. Gibb and Penny (2010) also found that the Columba group was sister to all other pigeons. Cracraft (2013) and Dickinson & Remsen (2013) placed the pigeons in three subfamilies: Columbinae, Peristerinae, and Raphinae (extralimital). SACC proposal passed to recognize two subfamilies and to modify sequence of genera. Dickinson & Raty (2015) determined that Claravinae or Claraviinae, not Peristerinae, is the correct subfamily name. Sweet et al. (2017) found that the relationships among the genera in the Claravinae are not reflected in traditional linear sequences. SACC proposal passed to modify linear sequence. 3. Plumbeous Pigeon – Patagioenas plumbea – Paloma plomiza * Fairly common and widespread in eastern lowlands, regular but somewhat less common up to 2300 m on east slope of Andes (pallescens, bogotensis). Plumbeous and Ruddy are pigeons of forest interiors. Both forage in subcanopy and canopy of humid forest, and only rarely fly above canopy. Typically seen as singles or as pairs, not in flocks, although may congregate in small groups at fruiting trees. Distinguished from other pigeons by habitat, behavior, uniformly drab plumage, and proportionally longer tails; but difficult to distinguish from each other by sight. Plumbeous averages slightly larger. Also is paler and grayer (plumage less suffused with reddish tones). Iris often pale (whitish); Ruddy always has dark (reddish) iris. VOICE Song very similar to that of Ruddy, but usually deeper, and with different pattern. Song in most of eastern Peru (pallescens) a variable series of 3 coos, middle of which may be bisyllabic. First note rises, second usually quavers, and final note rises then falls: “woo whOOoOO whoOOoo”; occasionally, last note is not included. Song of bogotensis (north of Amazon/east of Napo) may have a shorter descending middle note: “woo HOO whoOOoo.” Song in foothills in Puno is a different “heep HOO-HOO.” Call a rising growl: “grrooOOW.” Co, E, Br, Bo Page 7 © 2021 Jacamar Club - Perú 4. Gray- fronted Dove – Leptotila rufaxilla – Paloma de frente gris Fairly common and widespread in eastern lowlands, up to 1200 m, locally to 1700 m. Primarily at edge of humid forest, in river-edge forest, and on river islands; also enters forest interior, especially along streams. Overlaps with similar White-tipped Dove, but is more widespread in Amazonia.

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